Safety razor



0. E. CRATER SAFETY RAZOR.

FILED APR 29.1922

Mar. 18, 1923.

@Hoang Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

ORIEL E. CRATER, OF CONSTNTNE, MICHIGAN.

` SAFETY RAZOR.

Application iled. April 29, 1922. Serial No. 557,242.l

To @ZZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, Oman E. CnATER,.-a

citizen of the United States, residing at Constantine, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Michigan, have invented certain 'new and useful Improvements in Safety Razors, of which the following is a specilication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device of this kind, the construction of which is particularly adapted for use in connection with the razor guard set forth, illustrated and claimed in the patent issued to Oriel E. Crater, April 29, 1913, Patent No. 1,060,166.

Another purpose is to provide a safety razor including arazor blade holder, in combination with a filler abutment to be inserted in the hollow shank of the holder, to prevent movement of the removable razor blade in one direction, in combination with means on the abutment to be engaged by one end of a guard similar to that in said patent, so that the opposite end of the guard (which is operatively connected to the removable razorblade) may act to prevent movement of the razor blade in the opposite direction.

Still another purpose is the provision of means on the holder to prevent lateral movement of the blade.

A further purpose is to so connect the guard to th'e removable razor blade and the abutment filler, as to permit the guard to be disposed on one side or the other of the blade, thereby permitting shaving with the blade, with either face of the blade toward the surface being shaved.

It is to be understood that the particulars herein given are in no way limitative and that while still keeping within the scope of the invention, any desired modifications of detail and desired proportions may be made in the apparatus according to circumstances. y

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings f Figure 1 is a View in elevation of the irnproved safety razor constructed in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the holder and the abutment filler;

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Figure 3 is a cross sectional view on line 1 4 4 of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a cross sectionalA view.; y Figure 6 is a detail view of the razor blade, showing the pin 18; s

Figure 7 s a detail view of one end of the guard which connects'to the pin 18.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designatesa holder which may be made of any suitable material, preferably sheetmetal of any kind preferably aluminum, and which is bent longitudinally upon itself by a pressing process or the like, to provide a-holder with opposite sides 2, and also to form a channel Figure 4 is a cross sectionalviewon line 3 for the reception of the razor blade 4,

which is of a shape substantially corresponding to the cross sectional shape of the y channel of the holder. The thin portion of the blade engages between the opposite edges of the sides of the holder, there being a shoulder 6, withavhich the edge portions of the sides of the holder engage, to hold the razor blade firmly in position. The holder terminates in a shank 7, which is also provided with a channel S, for the'reception of the filler 9. The pivot 10, which i connectsl the two sides of the handle 11 to the shank of the holder also passes through an opening 12, which is formed in the filler.

The opposite sides of the shank 7a'djacent where the sides of the holder embrace the opposite sides of the razor blade are out away arcuately as shown at,13. The lforward portion of the filler terminates in an enlargement 14, which is provided with a notch 15, and the forward face 16 of the enlargement abuts the lugs 17, which extend from the opposite sides of the holder. These lugs 17 bear against the opposite faces of the razor blade, to insure the blade against lateral movement. One end of the razor blade 4 abuts the face 16 of the enlargement14 of the filler,I and prevents movement of the blade in one direction.

The forward end of the razor blade has a projecting stud or pin 18, upon which an arm 19 of the razor guard 2O is connected, that is to say pivotally, so that without detaching the other end 21 (which is forked at 22 and engages theI notch 15 of the filler)` of the guard, the guard may be shifted so as to Contact with one or the other of the faces of the razor blade. In this way either. one of the faces of the razor blade may lie against the surface of the skin When shaving, it depending'entirely upon a Side thrust' of the thumb of the hand carrying the razor, during the act of shaving to shift the guard from one face of the blade to the other. lhe guard due to its forked end engaging the notch l5 and its forward end mounted on the pivot pin 18, the razor blade is prevented from movement in the opposite direction. This is particularly true due to the fact that the lugs or projections 17 overlie the face 16 of the filler abutment.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed iszl. lThe combination with a razor blade holder having` a channeled shank, of a filler abutment mounted in said channeled shank, the holder having a channel, a razor blade mounted in the channel of the holder and engaging one end of the abutment filler to prevent movement of the blade in one direction, a razor guard positionable adjacent either face of the razor blade and being connected to one end of the iller abutment, and its other end to the razor blade.

2. rlhe combination With a razor blade holder having a channeled shank, of a filler abutment mounted in said channeled shank, the holder having a channel, a razorblade mounted in the channel of the holder and engaging one end of the abutment filler to prevent movement or' the blade in one direction, a razor guard positionable adjacent either face of the razor blade and rbeing` connected to one end of the iiller abutment, and its other end to the razor blade, and means carried bythe holder and overlying one end of the abutment filler to prevent movement of the abutment in one direction.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ORIEL E. @RATER 

